Marine Insects

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Lanna Cheng
North-Holland Publishing Company, 1976 - Nature - 581 pages
This is the first exhaustive review of literature on marine insects, which are defined in this volume as those that spend at least part of their life in association with the marine environment. Not only are true insects, such as the Collembola and insect parasites of marine birds and mammals, considered, but also other kinds of intertidal air-breathing arthropods, notably spiders, scorpions, mites, centipedes and millipedes, which live and feed with, or even on, the insects of marine habitats. The chapters, written by leading authorities, are divided into two sections, the first treating primarily ecological aspects, the second dealing with major groups of insects in marine environments.

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Respiratory adaptations of marine insects
43
Insect parasites of marine birds and mammals
79
Migrating and other terrestrial insects at sea
97
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